Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
This is pure fantasy right up there with the Green New Deal. Gas is actually fairly cheap considering that a pipe with heating gas is sent directly to you home. $12 a month, or roughly $130 a year, to upgrade lines is not bankrupting communities. This is ridiculous hyperbole. The reason gas bills get expensive is because Chicago’s old housing stock is poorly insulated. Everyone knows this. Most lower income residents are on the payment plan that flattens out the monthly bills so its the same every month instead of spikes in the winter and tiny bills in the summer.… Read more »